queue etiquitte question

[Nemo14]

{Then you have Scenario #4, the non-line lines...those that are fill in the available space like Pirates, Terror and Fantasmic...in this case I think it's fight for yourself (like in traffic), or just stay behind the person in front of you and disregard people going by you to fill in the space left or right of you...}

I had and experience on our last trip at Philharmagic where the CM kept saying to the group in front of us to please move up and fill in all available space, well she said this maybe 4 times and they never moved. So she looked in our familys direction and said please move up and fill in all available space well my husband and my sons move up when one of the group in front of us realized this she decided to move over cutting me off from my family. I said excuse me very nicely so I could catch up to my family but she ignored me. So I asked again Ma'am please excuse me may I catch up to my family she then moved over so I could get through and then began to go on and on about me cutting in line and I wasnt going to get there any faster than her. I didnt say anything back to her cause I was not willing to stoop to her level but how can people be so nasty to complete strangers for something so foolish I'll never understand.

We had that happen at RnRC in the preshow room. The Cm asked people to fill in the available space, and when no one budged, DH and I stepped to the back and over towards the door. One man in line swore at us and flipped us off when the doors opened.
Indeed we were actually conspiring to get on the ride at least 3 seconds before him!

 

[Dwarful]

Ive noticed this at Safari and at Soarin'. When we go with a big group we just spread out. Everyone ahead of us is in line as well, just because there is room on the side to slip by doesn't mean its right.

 

[Figment82]

Does this etiquette run into parade/fireworks viewing as well?

While watching IllumiNations, a woman (with child in hand) physically pushed my mother out of the way and stood right in front of her because we had been waiting 30 minutes in our spot and she demanded that we make way for her (when she had just walked up). My mom can't sit or bend down on the ground like that, so she needs to stand. We got there early to secure a place where people coming in after us would know we would be standing. The woman was outraged that in the middle of the show she was not able to walk right up to get to the front.

Then she had the nerve to call my mother childish...

What is up with some people? I guess everyone checks their brains at the turnstile... Every time I think I'm used to it, someone goes and does something that amazes me!

 

[k.hunter30]

We had that happen at RnRC in the preshow room. The Cm asked people to fill in the available space, and when no one budged, DH and I stepped to the back and over towards the door. One man in line swore at us and flipped us off when the doors opened.
Indeed we were actually conspiring to get on the ride at least 3 seconds before him!

 

[PintoColvig]

Does this etiquette run into parade/fireworks viewing as well?

While watching IllumiNations, a woman (with child in hand) physically pushed my mother out of the way and stood right in front of her because we had been waiting 30 minutes in our spot and she demanded that we make way for her (when she had just walked up). My mom can't sit or bend down on the ground like that, so she needs to stand. We got there early to secure a place where people coming in after us would know we would be standing. The woman was outraged that in the middle of the show she was not able to walk right up to get to the front.

Then she had the nerve to call my mother childish...

What is up with some people? I guess everyone checks their brains at the turnstile... Every time I think I'm used to it, someone goes and does something that amazes me!

The thread is drifting here but I had a similar issue back in Dec. We camped out for Illuminations on the North end of the lagoon. We weren't the first there but were there plenty early. Everyone, EVERYONE, was seated before the show began. However, once the program began people on the front row stood up even though people shouted long and loud for them to sit. Basically, everyone behind them were forced to stand up, too. My six year old and my four year old could not see. My poor pregnant wife had to hold one of children up for the entire show while I held the other. It was the Christmas version of Illuminations but so much for "Peace on Earth".

**Drift over**

 

[Glasgow]

The simple solution is to always just ask. If a group stops in front of you, either just politely mention that the line is moving ahead or ask if you can go by. It's really pretty simple (in theory - lol). How much time can you possibly save by cutting ahead 2 or 3 spots? C'mon people

Don't even get me started on saving a table while you're waiting for your significant other to bring food (and my family is standing there with our tray of food waiting for a table and could be eating and finished by the time your food comes) ... grrrrrrr. Now THAT is rude

 

[rcapolete]

Once group A is in line then nobody should be going around them unless they are stopped right at the boarding area. If group a stops in either scenerio 2 or 3 they are not delaying anyone from boarding the ride only from moving the small amount that they would have moved immediately.
Again if they are right at the boarding area and the people behind are ready to board and they aren't then that is a differnet story

 

[k.hunter30]

The simple solution is to always just ask. If a group stops in front of you, either just politely mention that the line is moving ahead or ask if you can go by. It's really pretty simple (in theory - lol). How much time can you possibly save by cutting ahead 2 or 3 spots? C'mon people

Don't even get me started on saving a table while you're waiting for your significant other to bring food (and my family is standing there with our tray of food waiting for a table and could be eating and finished by the time your food comes) ... grrrrrrr. Now THAT is rude

See... :lookaroun I don't see anything wrong with that unless it's posted somewhere that you cannot do that... :shrug: That type of stuff happens everywhere - beats a congested line for food...

 

[JaclynR]

We were once entering the que for Snow Whites ride in MK when a group of adults (at least 5-8 people) went right under the rope and got in front of us.

 

[Raven66]

Last year we were heading into the Tree of Life for ITTBAB and this lady just stops right before entering. She is spinning all around ooooooooing and awwwwwwwwwing for literally 5 mins. And we couldn't get around her because she was just so weird. We always make fun of that one even in the grocery store, my husband will stop in the middle of the aisle and start acting like her. It's quite amusing.:lol:

And then another time was when we were getting off one of the buses at Animal Kingdom. My family sat in the front and there was no seats left so I had to go to the back. This lady was back there with her little girl and when it was time to get off, she was picking up her stuff, playing with the stroller and other stuff. The whole time her little one was standing in between the two poles just before the doors in the back. She never asked the child to move while she did whatever it was she was doing. And there was quite a few people back there. So there was enough room to squeeze by the little girl and I did. My family was already gone. We have a system in order, just keep going I'll catch up :lookaroun . Well anyway, the lady yelled at me and asked me why I couldn't wait a few minutes. I politely told her my family is already gone and she said yeah right. To top it off they were waiting for the bus that night as well, and in line she took her time closing up the stroller and walked really slow. :lol:

 

[Glasgow]

See... :lookaroun I don't see anything wrong with that unless it's posted somewhere that you cannot do that... :shrug: That type of stuff happens everywhere - beats a congested line for food...

My contention is that if no one saved a table and just waited in line then there would always be enough tables for those with food.

Of course, there are exceptions like allowing elderly and handicapped to sit (that is fine) but if I'm standing there holding my food and there are 10 people just holding a table (without any food) it would seem like common courtesy to let my family sit down and eat since that's what the tables are for. :shrug: Just my opinion

Don't want to drift too much on this thread though .. sorry OP!

 

[Laura]

If the group ahead of me has already reached the point where the LINE begins (not the queue, but where the mob of people is actually at a standstill) and then they stop for a little bit to take a picture or look at something I'll back off. But if we're way back in an empty section of the queue and the actual line is still a ways up and the people are fiddling around I'll go around them.

There's a difference between enjoying the queue while you're in the line as a way to pass the time, and enjoying the queue before you even get to the line and holding everyone else up.

If I am in a queue but haven't yet reached the "line" and I want to stop and look at something, I just move to the side and let others pass by.

 

[Wilt Dasney]

If the group ahead of me has already reached the point where the LINE begins (not the queue, but where the mob of people is actually at a standstill) and then they stop for a little bit to take a picture or look at something I'll back off. But if we're way back in an empty section of the queue and the actual line is still a ways up and the people are fiddling around I'll go around them.

There's a difference between enjoying the queue while you're in the line as a way to pass the time, and enjoying the queue before you even get to the line and holding everyone else up.

If I am in a queue but haven't yet reached the "line" and I want to stop and look at something, I just move to the side and let others pass by.

It's so logical. I love it! :kiss:

 

[wdwmomof3]

We saw a lot of rude people down there in Oct. The most outrageous thing happened to us at the Magic Kingdom one night before Wishes started. We were working our way to leave the park. My husband decided that we would catch it another night because it was so packed. We were leaving Frontierland and making our way through the crowd when a man pushing a stoller ran over my eight year old daughter and didn't slow down. His wife was pushing another stoller as fast as she could trying to just keep up with her out of control husband. It made my husband so mad that he said something to him but the guy didn't speak English or my husband may have gotten hurt. lol

After a while we made it to the entrance only to find that man & his wife standing there watching Wishes. I couldn't beleive it. He ran over countless people with a stroller to make it to the entrance to watch the fireworks. What a jerk. My daughters leg bothered her most of the night and that was uncalled for.

I also had several teenagers rush in front of us different times that week. Once on Test track and they were really rude but with no parent around, teens will be teens I guess. I just wanted to get a magic wond out and turn them into mice

 

[ToTBellHop]

If the group ahead of me has already reached the point where the LINE begins (not the queue, but where the mob of people is actually at a standstill) and then they stop for a little bit to take a picture or look at something I'll back off. But if we're way back in an empty section of the queue and the actual line is still a ways up and the people are fiddling around I'll go around them.

There's a difference between enjoying the queue while you're in the line as a way to pass the time, and enjoying the queue before you even get to the line and holding everyone else up.

If I am in a queue but haven't yet reached the "line" and I want to stop and look at something, I just move to the side and let others pass by.

Exactly! It's just rude to stop and expect people behind you to wait. For example, if you enter the queue for Space Mountain and decide to analyze all of the silver ball-crawl balls in the pit below you, I don't think it's reasonable for you to hold up all the people behind you causing the line to back out the entrance and into Tomorrowland (assuming there is a huge gap between you and the actual line of guests waiting to ride), so move out of the way! Disney does very clearly say that you are supposed to keep up with the party in front of you while in line (they play these messages when lines are long--I've heard them in the ToT queue before), so if you aren't, you aren't playing by the rules.

As others have said, though, it's an issue of common sense. If someone trips and loses their contact and is searching for it, I would be quite the jerk to go blazing by them. But, if they are setting up their tripod to take a family portrait in front of the dummies in the Test Track line, they need to not be holding everyone else up, keeping guests further back unnecessarily out in the Florida heat.

We saw a lot of rude people down there in Oct. The most outrageous thing happened to us at the Magic Kingdom one night before Wishes started. We were working our way to leave the park. My husband decided that we would catch it another night because it was so packed. We were leaving Frontierland and making our way through the crowd when a man pushing a stoller ran over my eight year old daughter and didn't slow down. His wife was pushing another stoller as fast as she could trying to just keep up with her out of control husband. It made my husband so mad that he said something to him but the guy didn't speak English or my husband may have gotten hurt. lol

After a while we made it to the entrance only to find that man & his wife standing there watching Wishes. I couldn't beleive it. He ran over countless people with a stroller to make it to the entrance to watch the fireworks. What a jerk. My daughters leg bothered her most of the night and that was uncalled for.

I hate it when people do this! Strollers are not weapons! I constantly see people doing this during all of the moments where there are swarms of humanity. Trying to exit Epcot after IllumiNations is a GREAT time to get run over by a stroller. People decide their strollers (with their kids inside) should be used as a "snow plow" to clear out the path ahead. So rude! One time, this same stroller was behind me and constantly bumping into my heels, and finally I snapped and made some choice comments. The lady pushing the stroller backed-off ~sniggers~

 

[yazmin182]

OK--let me get this right.

You're in the midst of a long queue with lots to look at and multiple switchbacks and rooms--something like Expedition Everest.

You want to take a picture or point something out to your companions.

It ABSOLUTELY is rude for someone to zoom around you. You have already established your place in line and haven't "left" the queue.

That 5 feet will NOT get you to the front of the line significantly faster. You're trapped in line, and you're getting to the ride is a function of time as well as space.

100% Agree! As someone already mentioned, where exactly are they going?
My mom and I were in line once and we were taking a picture, the lady behind us was so rude and stormed infront of us. We took about 30 seconds and the line was really long. We were not even close to getting on the attraction. My mom got soo ed and she hurried behind the lady and went in front of her to our "rightful spot", it was soo embarassing, but funny at the same time.

 

[Cinderella1976]

On our last vacation we encountered some VERY RUDE people when we were waiting to board the monorail from the MK back to the GF. We were one of the first people at the station and we waited about 15 min for the monorail to arrive. We had two sleeping children in our big & heavy double stroller so it took a few extra seconds for us to board. When we finally found some room to accomodate us (family of 5 w/double stroller) as we were trying to board, a buch of people pushed past us as we were trying to get into the door and took all of the available seating & standing room. Therefore we had to wait for the next one. We just could not belive it!

 

[Raven66]

On our last vacation we encountered some VERY RUDE people when we were waiting to board the monorail from the MK back to the GF. We were one of the first people at the station and we waited about 15 min for the monorail to arrive. We had two sleeping children in our big & heavy double stroller so it took a few extra seconds for us to board. When we finally found some room to accomodate us (family of 5 w/double stroller) as we were trying to board, a buch of people pushed past us as we were trying to get into the door and took all of the available seating & standing room. Therefore we had to wait for the next one. We just could not belive it!

Something like that happened to us our very first trip with our DD. We had driven that year and we were waiting for the tram to take us to the parking lot. Our daughter was 5 (now 10). We waited about 20 mins or so in the very hot sun and it finally came. As we were walking to our seats, a couple from the row over shoved my DD over and hopped into our seats. I was fuming. Not because we had to wait again (even tho I wasn't happy about that either), but because they shoved my child. And they knew what they did because they kept looking the other way. Let's hope some day when they have kids, someone is a lot kinder to their child then they were to ours.

 

[Vernonpush]

My biggest pet peeve is in the egress, when a family of 4 or more will stop in the dead in their tracks at doorway of an attraction to find their park map, unfold it, and figure out what they're going to do next. "Excuse me, could you step out of the way to let the other 500 people out of the building?"

 

[bayoutinkbelle]

I think we all agree that common sense should dictate, but we all know that a lot of people leave their common sense (assuming they had any in the first place) at home when they go to WDW.

I try to assess each situation as it comes up. I've often gone around folks who have stopped for one reason or another in attractions like KS, before you get to the actual line. I have no problem whatsoever about sidestepping someone or a group when they stand still and a CM is constantly trying to get people to fill in all available space. I've let folks go past me when I wanted to take a longer look at things or when the mood strikes.